software glitches. Such stories from IT admins and prosumers does not inspire much confidence in me. Can anyone explain this? (I mean the software that comes bundled with external USB drives is ...

If you know anything about NAS (Network Attached Storage), you know that it’s a great centralized backup receptacle for your PCs. If you didn’t know, we just told you. Actually, the name is bit of a ...

Taiwan-based network-attached storage (NAS) maker QNAP has addressed a critical security vulnerability enabling attackers to compromise vulnerable NAS devices' security. The security issue is caused ...

It's been over a year since our last deep dive into QNAP's software and quite a bit has changed since then. QNAP, never one to rest on their previous accomplishments has improved upon existing ...

I have a Synology NAS (DS-920+) and a Windows 10 machine. The NAS is the "primary" data store but I'd like to make regular backups of the NAS data to a local HDD in my Windows 10 machine. I prefer ...

I can't stress enough how important it is to have backups of your data. If you have a single computer at home, getting one of these great external drives will get the job done. But if you have ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...

NAS backup seems like talk from yesteryear in these days when the cloud is on the rise and disk declining. But there’s still a lot of NAS storage out there – from departmental boxes to scale-out NAS – ...

In spite of the convenience offered by network attached storage (NAS), appliances and gateways must be configured and managed using software tools that allow administrators to allocate space, manage ...

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of ...

The number of ransomware strains targeting NAS and backup storage devices is growing, with users "unprepared" for the threat, researchers say. Ransomware comes in many forms and guises. The malware ...